On this day, February 22, in 1943, three brave young people in Germany, founders of the White Rose Society, a student resistance movement, were tried and summarily executed by guillotine, for having distributed leaflets against the brutal, totalitarian Nazi control of their country.

Their society was named after a novel, The White Rose by B. Traven, who also wrote The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

Thought this might be of interest to my fellow readers of this board.

Walt

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Originally posted by Walt:On this day, February 22, in 1943, three brave young people in Germany, founders of the White Rose Society, a student resistance movement, were tried and summarily executed by guillotine, for having distributed leaflets against the brutal, totalitarian Nazi control of their country.

Their society was named after a novel, The White Rose by B. Traven, who also wrote The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

Thought this might be of interest to my fellow readers of this board.

Walt

Ugh. Augh. I read this story in German, during high school German class, not knowing the accuracy or historicity of it. This has to be the same event. Ugh. Even though I don't remember the correct German words for it decades later, "they were allowed to smoke a last cigarette together" is seared into my memory, never to stop searing.

I don't know enough about it to know how Edison may have justified it, but he was making a ton with illegal copies of other peoples' films, to the point where Melies had to send his brother to America to enforce the copyrights. This is the only way some of the films were saved. The brother made a paper copy of each frame for the Library of Congress. While film deteriorates or is subject to other bad ends, paper holds up relatively well.